Resource-Rich Provinces Are the Biggest Budget Fibbers

You might think that Ontario and Quebec, with their embattled manufacturing economies and big populations, would be the Canadian provinces most inclined to fib in their budgets.

But it’s the resource-rich provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan that have the biggest gap between the spending and revenue targets in their budgets and their actually spending, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual “Pinocchio” index.